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Greece
Too Close to Call: Exit Polls Show No Winner Yet in Greek Elections
ATHENS - After a deadlocked May 6 election that failed to give any party enough votes to form a government in the midst of Greece's worst economic crisis since World War II, and six anguishing weeks in between with...
Economy
The Three Greek Election Scenarios: Lose, Lose, Lose
ATHENS – Greece’s critical June 17th elections have been framed as a euro vs. drachma dilemma, whether the country will stay in the Eurozone or be forced out and back to its ancient currency and into what most analysts...
Economy
The Red Scare: The Hammer and Sickle Flying Over Greece
ATHENS - From 1947-57 it was Sen. Joseph “Better Dead than Red,” McCarthy who put the fear of having no God into Americans with his political witch hunt trying to root out Communists – or suspected Communists – from...
Economy
Pikramenos to Lead Soured Greeks Ahead of June 17 Elections
ATHENS – With the collapse of talks to form a coalition government in the wake of the May 6 stalemated elections that failed to give any party a mandate to rule, Greece has come under the temporary control of...
Economy
Greek President's Office Says Kammenos Lied About Document
ATHENS – The office of Greek President Karolos Papoulias said Independent Greeks party leader Panos Kammenos had given the President a document offering to join a coalition government before talks broke down and was not telling the truth when...
Economy
SYRIZA Surges in Polls, Sun Setting on Golden Dawn
ATHENS – Greece’s rising political leader of the left, 37-year-old Alexis Tsipras, whose refusal to back a coalition government in favor of more austerity measures, has taken his SYRIZA party into the lead for prospective new elections, a poll...
Economy
Tsipras Strikes Out – Now it's Venizelos' Turn
ATHENS – After Alexis Tsipras, leader of the SYRIZA Radical Coalition of the Left, failed in his bid to create a coalition government in the wake of Greece’s May 6 elections which resulted in a mandate against austerity measures...
Economy
Tsipras Woos Partners But Says No Bailout Deal
ATHENS – Greece’s new power broker, SYRIZA party leader Alexis Tsipras, is trying to form a coalition government in the wake of the country’s fractured election results, but has laid down tough conditions that would require a rejection of...
Economy
Greek Election: Political Leaders Spin the Results
ATHENS – Even as the votes were still being counted in the May 6 general elections to replace a temporary, shaky coalition government, and with exit polls showing big gains for groups opposed to the austerity measures demanded by...
Economy
Greek Elections Campaign Reaches Home Stretch With Promises Flying
ATHENS – After a three-week campaign that was mostly conducted in closed-doors members-only rallies and away from a public furious over austerity measures, a mix of mainstream traditionalists, anti-capitalists, anti-bailout groups, Nazis, nationalists and even a porno star made...